essay
Caste in a Tanjore village
Aspects of caste in south India, Ceylon and northwest Pakistan • Cambridge, England • Published In 1969 • Pages: 11-60, 147-148
By: Gough, Kathleen.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is an outline study of the characteristics and functioning of the caste system in the Tanjore village of Kumbapettai. It includes relatively full information on the spatial distribution, occupational specialties, and relative ritual ranking of the castes in the village, and on the social organization and internal structure of the three major 'caste communities' which they comprise. The interrelation of the caste with the village administration and economy is described, and the effects of internal migration and recent social and political change on the caste system are also examined.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Castes
- History
- Community structure
- Sociocultural trends
- Social relationships and groups
- Purification and atonement
- Sanctions
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Tamil
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- South Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- David Sherwood ; John Beierle
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1951-1953
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1790-1953
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- village of Kumbapettai, Tanjore District, India
- NotesAdditional notes
- By E. Kathleen Gough
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-148)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tamil (Indic people)